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Seattle Municipal Archives Finding Aids

Seattle City Light

 Organization

Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:

City Light 2006 Windstorm Damage Digital Photographs

 Series
Identifier: 1204-16
Abstract

Also known as the Hannukkah Eve Windstorm, this weather event caused wide-spread power outages and significant damage throughout the City of Seattle and the surrounding areas.

Dates: 2006

Annual Reports of Public Electric Utilities

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 1202-05
Abstract

Reports filed by City Light to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Dates: 1967-1997

Sally Bagshaw Subject Files

 Series
Identifier: 4613-02
Abstract

Records created and received by Bagshaw's office during her tenure as Seattle City Councilmember.

Dates: 2002-2019; Majority of material found within 2010-2019

Board of Public Works Miscellaneous Subject Files

 Series
Identifier: 0601-01
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, reports, applications, permits, petitions, and contracts relating to construction, condemnations, street use, franchises, and rights of way. This series is an artificial collection arranged alphabetically by subject.

Dates: 1896-1977

Cedar Falls Hydraulic and Weather Data

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 1206-20
Abstract

Charts showing daily weather and water data at the Cedar Falls Power Plant.

Dates: 1963-1999

Citizens' Rate Advisory Committee Records

 Series
Identifier: 9569-01
Abstract

Records from a committee formed to provide comments and recommendations to Seattle City Light regarding electric rate increases.

Dates: 1980-1988

City Council Issue Notebooks

 Series
Identifier: 1801-23
Scope and Contents note

Notebooks and binders covering a variety of issues relevant to nearly all core functions of City government. Most of the notebooks were compiled for City Council members to provide background information for pending legislation. A large number of the notebooks are from Tim Hill, Jeanette Williams, and George Benson.

Dates: 1970-1989

City Light Advertising Graphics

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 1210-02
Scope and Contents note This collection is a group of materials which appear to have come from the advertising or graphic design department. The collection consists of finished advertisements, as well as incomplete designs. Of note are a reproduction of the Seattle City Light building's frieze, titled The Evolution of Light; elevation drawings of the Yesler substation; a pen and ink drawing of a power house by City employee Walt Williams; and drawings of a Ross turbine. Also included is a scrapbook, dated 1958,...
Dates: 1958-1977

City Light Advertising Materials

 Series
Identifier: 1210-01
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, reports, articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and advertisements relating to the Skagit River, power rates, and City Light advertisements.

Dates: 1939-1995

City Light Advisory Board Records

 Series
Identifier: 1290-01
Abstract

Meeting minutes, agendas, and other advisory board materials.

Dates: 2000 - 2010

City Light Aerial Thermal Study Photographs

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1204-06
Scope and Contents note

Prints of infrared aerial photographic survey showing heat and energy loss throughout Seattle. The flight includes 1250 images. Aerial Thermal Study.

Dates: 1977

City Light Annual Reports

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1200-08
Scope and Contents note

Narrative and statistical reports detailing the activities, projects, and programs of Seattle's public power utility. The reports provide broad outlines of the development of hydroelectric power systems and the extension of lighting services in the City.

Dates: 1911-2003

City Light Brochures

 Series
Identifier: 1201-12
Scope and Contents note

Brochures, flyers, and other publications published by City Light. Also includes ephemera and Skagit postcards.

Dates: 1929-2008

City Light Large Industrial Customers Survey

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 1205-01
Scope and Contents note

The survey was conducted by Seattle City Light in 1984 to gather economic and energy use characteristics of large industrial customers in the Seattle area. The survey, carried out by the Load Forecasting Section, covered two concerns: energy costs and plant characteristics, and economic characteristics. Among the customers surveyed were Bethlehem Steel, Olumpic Foundry, Seattle Times, Rainier Brewery, Aitron, and Darigold.

Dates: 1984

City Light Miscellaneous Newsletters

 Series
Identifier: 1201-11
Scope and Contents note

Various publications produced by City Light.

Dates: 1939-2005

City Light Moving Images

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1204-05
Scope and Contents note Moving images created by or for Seattle City Light depicts various activities and facilities at the department. The footage includes finished productions, raw footage, and outtakes. Public service announcements are also included and cover subjects about electricity conservation and safety, and City Light's apprenticeship training program.Other content documents the history of Seattle City Light along with the planning and construction of various projects including substations,...
Dates: 1925-2011

City Light Negatives

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1204-01
Scope and Contents note Both color and black and white photographic negatives documenting the development of Seattle’s public electric utility, including dam construction, water main installation, and facilities. Includes photos of dam construction in the Cedar River Watershed and the Skagit, and the Boundary Project; transmission lines and substations; City Light facilities, and employees. Subseries of images relate to Boundary Dam, Gorge High Dam, and Ross Dam. Other generating facilities depicted are Cedar...
Dates: 1914-1995

City Light News Clippings Scrapbooks

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1201-04
Scope and Contents note These scrapbooks are a collection of newspaper clippings in date order about Seattle City Light as well as national and international news regarding hydroelectric power and electricity. Some repeated topics include: City Light rates, wages, Works Progress Administration funding, advertisements, the proposed consolidation of City Light and Puget Sound Power and Light, promotions, retirements, and the Skagit River Project. Volume 1 contains clippings from 1935 to 1936. Volume 2 contains...
Dates: 1924-1970; 1935-1949

City Light Personnel Cards

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1201-06
Scope and Contents note

Summary personnel information for City Light employees. Includes name, job title, pay rate, dates of job changes or personnel action, and address. Arranged alphabetically.

Dates: 1904-1938

City Light Photographic Prints

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1204-02
Scope and Contents note

This series is comprised of prints and represents a small portion of the work done by Seattle City Light to electrify Seattle. One hundred and twenty-three prints are available for download on our digital platform; this includes 54 Real Estate Services photos of identified addresses. For a comprehensive look at the work of Seattle City Light, see the SCL negative collection (1204-01).

Dates: 1914 - 1995

City Light Plans and Drawings

 Series
Identifier: 1202-08
Scope and Contents Note

Drawings of South Lake Union Steam Plant, substations, dams, manhole covers and other public utility projects of City Light.

Dates: 1902-1997

City Light Power Development Data

 Series
Identifier: 1206-03
Scope and Contents note

Charts, figures, statistics, performance curves, schematics, diagrams, cost estimates, computations, graphs, property agreements, and reservoir capacity figures on the Skagit River Power Development Project and the Cedar Falls Power Plant. Includes data for the Gorge Powerhouse and Diablo Dam.

Dates: 1909-1940

City Light Review Panel Records

 Series
Identifier: 9517-01
Abstract

Documents related to the City Light Review Panel founded in 2011

Dates: 2010-2011

City Light Skagit River Aerial Photographs

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 1204-13
Scope and Contents note

Aerial photographs of the Skagit River in British Columbia taken prior to increasing the water height of Ross Lake Reservoir which resulted from completing step 3 construction of Ross Dam. The 70 exposures were shot from 12,000 feet by Aero Surveys, Ltd. of Vancouver, B.C. The photographs document the course of the river, topography of the area, and vegetation adjacent the river.

Dates: 1949

City Light Slide Collection

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1204-04
Abstract

Slides documenting the development of City Light's public power facilities including dams, power houses, transmission lines, substations, and methods of wiring.

Dates: 1890-2000

Additional filters:

Subject
Seattle (Wash.) 82
Seattle 67
Public Utilities 44
Photographic prints 17
Electric power -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 16
Electric utilities -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 15
Diablo Dam (Wash.) 13
Diablo Dam 12
Ross Dam (Wash.) 12
Skagit River Hydroelectric Project 11
Boundary Project 10
Cedar Falls Power Plant (Wash.) 10
Ross Dam 10
Skagit River (B.C. and Wash.) 10
Skagit Project 9
Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State) 8
Lake Union Steam Plant (Seattle, Wash.) 8
Public utilities -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 8
Washington (State) 8
Homelessness -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 7
Labor unions -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 7
Lake Union Steam Plant 7
Public safety -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 7
Vocational Education 7
Water-power -- Washington (State) 7
Apprenticeship programs -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 6
Boundary Dam (Wash.) 6
Cedar River Watershed (King County, Wash.) 6
Dams -- Washington (State) 6
Energy conservation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 6
Gorge Dam (Wash.) 6
Housing -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 6
Transportation -- Planning -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 6
Cedar River (King County, Wash.) 5
Electric power production -- Washington (State) 5
Gorge Dam 5
Newsletters 5
Occupational training -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 5
Parks -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 5
Refuse and refuse disposal -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 5
Dams 4
Electric lighting -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Electric power distribution -- Washington (State) 4
Electric power transmission -- Washington (State) 4
Electric substations -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Express highways -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
KeyArena (Seattle, Wash.) 4
Labor-management committees -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Nuclear energy -- Washington (State) 4
Photograph albums 4
Photographs 4
Pike Place Market (Seattle, Wash.) 4
Public works 4
Seattle (Wash.) -- Politics and government 4
Skagit County (Wash.) 4
Taxicabs -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Transmission lines -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Weather -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Alaskan Way Viaduct (Seattle, Wash.) 3
Bicycles and bicycling -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
Civil rights -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
Electric heating -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
Electric power conservation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
Electric power transmission--Washington (State) 3
Electric utilities -- Rates -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
Electric utilities--Rates--Washington (State)--Seattle 3
Electric utilities--Washington (State)--Seattle 3
Family violence -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
Legal Opinions 3
Maps 3
Monorail railroads -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
Newhalem 3
Newhalem (Wash.) 3
Pike Plaza Redevelopment Project 3
Police internal investigation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
Signs and Billboards 3
Skagit River Railway 3
South Lake Union (Seattle, Wash.) 3
Steam power plants -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
Transportation 3
Transportation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
Water and water rights 3
Water-power -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
Waterfronts -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
Ackerley Arena (Seattle, Wash.) 2
Advertising 2
Aerial photographs 2
Alaskan Way 2
Benaroya Hall (Seattle, Wash.) 2
Burke Gilman Trail (Wash.) 2
Cedar Falls (Wash.) 2
Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.) 2
Children -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 2
City planning 2
Clippings 2
Comprehensive Plan 2
Construction workers -- Washington (State) 2
Creston (Wash.) 2
Dams -- Design and construction -- Washington (State) 2
Dams -- Design and construction -- Washington (State) -- Photographs 2